1985 - Biograph

Biograph (1985)
Biograph (1985)
  1. Baby Let Me Follow You Down
  2. If Not for You
  3. Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)
  4. I'll Keep It with Mine
  5. You Angel You
  6. Gotta Serve Somebody
  7. Can You Please Crawl out Your Window? - (Highway 61 Revisted single)
  8. Lay Down Your Weary Tune
  9. Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
  10. I Shall Be Released
  11. Masters of War
  12. Abandoned Love - (previously unreleased)
  13. Romance in Durango
  14. Most Likely You Go Your Way - (live 1974)
  15. Baby I’m in the Mood for You
  16. Like a Rolling Stone
  17. Forever Young - (previously unreleased demo)
  18. Every Grain of Sand
  19. It Ain't Me Babe
  20. Heart of Mine
  21. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn, the Eskimo)
  22. Time Passes Slowly
  23. Blowin' in the Wind
  24. Isis - (live 1975)
  25. Mr. Tambourine Man
  26. Jet Pilot - (previously unreleased)
  27. All Along the Watchtower
  28. Tangled Up in Blue
  29. The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar
  30. Positively 4th Street
  31. It's All Over Now Baby Blue - (live in 1966)
  32. I Want You
  33. Times They Are A-Changin'
  34. To Ramona
  35. Percy's Song - (previously unreleased 1963)
  36. I Don't Believe You - (live 1966)
  37. Lay Lady Lay
  38. Visions of Johanna - (live 1966 version)
  39. Million Dollar Bash
  40. Subterranean Homesick Blues
  41. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
  42. Caribbean Wind
  43. Knockin’ on Heaven's Door
  44. Up to Me - (previously unreleased 1974 song)
  45. Just Like a Woman
  46. Dear Landlord
  47. Mixed Up Confusion
  48. Tombstone Blues
  49. Solid Rock
  50. I Wanna Be Your Lover
  51. You're a Big Girl Now

Reviews:

From The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:

"Biograph [1985] A 5-LP box set retrospective of Dylan’s work from 1962–81, packaged with an unprecedented
collection of personal and rare photographs and equally unprecedented interview
comments by Dylan about the songs themselves, plus other interview material ranging over many
topics in which Dylan, sometimes surly but more often open, remains unpredictable and spikey.
Though criticised (inevitably) by some collectors, it is a fine if quirky selection of previously issued
album tracks plus a significant number of previously unreleased recordings: a different take of
‘Mixed-Up Confusion’ (1962); ‘Baby, I’m in the Mood for You’ (1962); the exquisitely performed
‘protest’ number ‘Percy’s Song’ (1963); the incomparable ‘Lay Down Your Weary Tune’ (1963); by no
means the best take of ‘I’ll Keep It with Mine’ (1965); a fragment, previously unknown even to
avid collectors, from the Highway 61 Revisited sessions, ‘Jet Pilot’ (1965); the wonderful ‘I Wanna Be
Your Lover’ (1965); live cuts from the 1966 tour— the electric ‘I Don’t Believe You’ and the acoustic
solo ‘Visions of Johanna’ and ‘It’s All Over Now Baby Blue’; the belated release of take 2 of the original
1967 Dylan & the Crackers takes of ‘Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)’—though take 1 had
long circulated unofficially; a publisher’s office demo solo of ‘Forever Young’ (1973); the original
studio cut of ‘You’re a Big Girl Now’ and the Blood on the Tracks outtake ‘Up to Me’(1974); the lovely
Desire outtake ‘Abandoned Love’ (1975); excellent live recordings of two other Desire songs, ‘Isis’ and
‘Romance in Durango’, from the first Rolling Thunder Revue (1975); a major song from the Shot
of Love sessions, ‘Caribbean Wind’ (1981), and a live ‘Heart of Mine’ (1981). An affirmation of the astonishing
variety as well as richness of Dylan’s corpus, the collection was well-received by the public
and went some way to reviving that fickle thing, Dylan’s critical reputation."

Best Song:
"I Wanna Be Your Lover"
(well, some are greater but they are previously released)
According to Alias

Favorite Lyric:
"Oh, the only decent thing I did when I worked as a postal clerk
Was to haul your picture down off the wall near the cage where I used to work"
According to Alias




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